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I have to keep relearning the old lesson—as I am once again with this Pixel 4a fiasco—that cheap gear is not always the best value in the long run.

Not the conclusion I would’ve gone with but Google fans at this point aren’t particularly pro-consumer

• Battery performance took a dive after the Nothing OS 3 update (8.5-12 hours to barely 8 hours).

• Photos seem LQ despite having two 50MP cameras

• Noticeable green tint at low brightness settings probably due to LQ OLES displays.

• Grievances with Nothing’s update philosophy where they seem to:

  • update the (a) models first before flagship
  • not optimise performance, and
  • anecdotally make previous model’s performance (camera) worse

• Frustrated with the fact that they seem to releasing the 3a before the 3.

• Likes the glyph system

• still recommends for the price range but does not recommend for a “good experience”

Similar situation. I quickly glance between Lemmy and Mastodon and only use old.reddit when I’m on my PC (just realised I hadn’t really used it since I’ve been making an effort to engage with the manga communities on lemmy) . All my friends and favourite artists seem to use Instagram so I only use it out of necessity for messaging and quick inspirations (I tried using Cara but I found the app somewhat slow and disliked that it wasn’t federated, so I could see it having a very low lifespan. I saw it as a poor move for artists to move to it solely on the promise of being “anti-AI” without any redundancies that a de-federated option would have)

There was a mass exodus of Escapist writers (including Yahtzee) and formed Second Wind. Been watching a lot more of their stuff since they left the Escapist outside of Yahtzee